fantasia

Example Sentences

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There, the mother darns socks and sweeps the endless dust, while the thoroughly American children daydream in midcentury fantasia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The putrid chamber drama becomes a fantasia, befouled rags turn into tuxedo pants and it’s finally safe to belt how they feel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

One chapter looks at a literary example, William Wells Brown’s novel "Clotel," which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

The thesis of “Gasoline Rainbow,” the latest cinematic fantasia from the brothers Bill and Turner Ross, is articulated in its first moments, in voice-over set atop a sunset.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

So: the sonata form—to set this aside means to extemporise a fantasia that is however not a symphony, not a sonata, not a concerto.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James